I'm fine! Like you, I've been busy and mostly unavailable for any roleplay for most of the year and with the quickly approaching holidays I'm eager to get back on it.
This, so much. A lot of plots would have avoided if the main characters just had some common sense and did not make absurd lies that would bite them in the proverbial arse later.
I'm... not as completely certain about the latter, though, actually. While I'm going to go with ">Disclose your...
@Elephantom I say! You, my good sir, have exquisitely described the terrors and horrors of the fine art of being so edgy you could cut through diamond, and I tip my hat off to you.
Let's introduce ourselves! The armoured lady could mistake him for a monster/enemy messenger/loser and probably be able to punt Our Hero fairly easily in the whatchamacallits, fireworks-101 book or not.
Decisions, decisions. Despite me being completely gung ho about magic, something tells me that becoming a wizard doesn't just require reading out a fancy spellbook. To be fair, Our Hero would also not know how to wield a sword or shoot a bow, but I assume it's easier to learn those than how to...
>Wait for it to subside, then investigate. It's safer. If we tried to watch from a distance, we'd probably end up getting involved anyway, if not hit by a stray arrow.